Investigation: At this stage i think that all of use, my group members and I did a good job. At first we devided the work equally, each of us had the same amount of work. And we managed to finish on time all the work. By working in a group i realized that it is alot easier, the work gets done faster and as a team we achieve more and faster. Our weaknesses were: soemtimes we argued over silly things which made us waste some time and sometimes all of us got distracted and did not manage to finish our work. My job was to do the history of a boat, at the beginning I didn't know what to write because i hadn't fully understood the question, but when i asked Mr. Wafula I understood it. The first thing i did was to look for a good website, it was a bit hard but at the end i Found, what i did good was not copypasting the same words as the website but changing it itno my own words. At the end of this stage we managed to achieve a 6, and i am happy to say that as a team we did a good job.
Design: This stage was a bit hard because none of us knew how to use google sketchup. So we decide to ask Hamdan for some help and he gave us some advice that were usefull to all of us. I did design one which at the end was the one we chose for our final design. What we did good was writing a good explanation for each of the design maybe next time we should try harder on google sketch up and make our boat a bit hard.
Plan: In this stage we didn't do very well, because we didn't work as a proper team, infact it affected all of us. We didnt submitted it on time and we didn't write well detailed explanation. And i realized that when one member of the time is not working properly also the rest of the people get affected. Next time we should give more detailed explanation in order to achieve a higher grade.
Create: This stage wasn't as hard as i thought it will be. The first thing we did was drawing the boat on the acrylic, the hard part was cutting the pieces out, which took us alot of time and almost all of got cut with the copying saw. Later on Mr wafula helped us cutting the major pices out with a machine and this gave us more time to do the rest of the job better. After cutting we had to bend it, this took us alot of time and in the end we realized that some of our measurment were wrong and some part of the boat had some big gaps, but thanks to the silicon we managed to cove those gaps and our boat actually came out nicely. When testing it we realized that a v hull makes the boat go faster the only disadvantage is that when the boat goes to fast it can cap size, but the boat skimed on the water and goes very fast and it one of the fastest. Next time what we should do is make sure that all our mesuerment are accurate, but at the end we did a good job.
Attitudes in technology: As a group i have to say that we worked well together, even though some times we fought over silly things we managed to work propelrly with nos stop and in most of our stages we achieved good grade. In time we always worked consitently without stopping and we were always punctual and all our stages were submitted on time. At the end of this project i can say that i am happy with what i did and i am happy with the choice of my group.
